San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1887-02-17
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BILE scheme for Irish home rule.
South Chicago is flooded and no end
OF damage Is feared.
The County Clare authorities are
drafting extra police, fearing outrages.
Minister to Berlin, Pendleton, is rest
ing quietly at Cincinnati among friends.
The report il confirmed that the em.
peror will issue no election manifesto.
Emperor williams illness Is reported
not of q serious character.
Cardinal Jacobini thanks Bismark for
his May concessions.
France officially assures Spain that she
Algerian border.
Of the 5000 prisoners confined in
India jsils, 5000 will be released on the
occasion of the queens jubilee.
The Guyon line steamer, Wisconsin,
Is ashore on the outer bar 10 miles from
Fire Island. Passengers and mails safe.
Senator Glascock reports back the uni
form text book bill with a provision for
school libraries.
Senator Upshaw reports favorably the
bill authorizing counties to raise bonds
for bridge building.
Senator Jarvis reports favorably the
bill for collectors to pay taxes direct TO
state treasurer.
Mr.. Tanner, County Glare, assures his
tenants he will adhere to the plan OF
campaign.
Tenants on Lord Corks estate, Oppo-
site Glenbeigh, are being evicted. No
resistance, but the police are boyeotted.
HI H.
address, Parnsll will go to Algiers for
his health.
The house extended time for payment
Of school and asylum lands, under acts
Of 1874, to ten years.
Speaker signs bill enabling railroads to
abandon coast termini at county seats in
gulf counties destroyed by storms.
The New York senate passes the bill
authorizing women to vote at municipal
elections; 20 to 8.
Paris journals are full of disquieting
reports of Incidents upon the German
border.
The act Of the German government,
declaring Stettin In a minor state of
seege, is approved by the Bundesrath.
A freight train at Jefferson jumps the
| no one hurt.
The Mallory steamships at New York
find difficulty In loading, owing TO the
strike.
The state of Coahuila has levied q "a
per cent. ad valorem tax on all property,
including merchandise. This will make
smuggling lively.
The dollar mould used by the Fort
Worth counterfeiters has been secured;
the mould for quarters was broken.
Jim Richards, the negro murderer of
Deputy Sheriff Upchurch, OF Navasota,
was lynched Monday, near the Madison
county line.
Henry Shipman pleads guilty to muir
der In the first degree for killing his
landlady, Josephine Mason, In New
York, February3 8.
The Chinese government deny any
knowledge Of the invasion of Burmah,
but the reports of such invasion are re-
peated.
The senate bill authorizing married
ladies to become ,incorpOrators for char
liable and literary institutions, passes to
third reading.
German authorities are. arresting in
Mulhausen all persons suspected OF sym
pathizing with the French Patriotic
League.
The attempt to empanel purely
trials fails. The jury will surely dis.
agree.
The trial of natives in New leland for
numbering missionaries Is creating in
tense excitement In the islands. Six of
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death.
Italy, Germany and Austria are seek
ing by negotiation to extend the en-
tente cOrdiale, which exists between
them on all other subjects, to the Bull
garian and MEDITERRANEAN questions.
Revenue Collector Crenshaw and
Agent Chapman had personal encoun-
ter at Atlanta custom-house over the
order for the discharge of deputy COL
lector.
Senate bill No. 126, referring to liabil-
ity Of individually stockholders for cor
porate debts, led to very lively discus
sion and the bill was not passed to e
third reading.
Boulanger's letter, which the foreign
office would not permit him to send
privately, was addressed to the chief of
the Russian staff, General O'Brutchoff,
astroDg opponent Of Germany.
The National German Gazette calls
special attention to the contributions re-
ceived in Germany from American
socialists In aid Of the socialist election
fund.
The Rheinish Catholic N obillty society
issue manifesto against the central
party In Germany, for alliance with the